Join me, my purple lipstick, my long tangled hair (and, let’s be real, my fucking Bullet Journal) as we take charge and live our best lives.

I’m interested in Pride as a time for angry resistance! As such, I’ve got a bunch of new queer rock music to share.

It’s a great time to be queer and/or trans music fan! There was SO MUCH incredible music to cover this month.

We’ve got a good mix of tunes here this month: some hip-hop and EDM if you’re ready to bounce off that winter chill, some intense vibes and chill folk if you still want to hibernate for a bit — and of course a bunch in between.

I’m ready to kiss the last hours of the longest 28 days on record away with a f*cking party and a playlist full of bangers!

A selection of emotionally devastating songs I live in fear of having to emotionally process in public without warning at CVS.

The first musician or song that you felt in your heart and brain was gay was a big moment for many of us — here are the gay songs we first knew and loved.

Here’s a bunch of rapid-fire reviews to cover albums, songs, and EPs that may have escaped your notice in 2018.

Once you start going to karaoke every week, you can process your emotions in real-time via song just like a character in a movie musical.

There’s just some songs that make you want to shout and dance and that make you feel proud to be queer.

Spend an evening in photoessay with queer Puerto Rican musical artist Frankie Simone, read a page from her childhood journal, and check out the premiere of her new video for LOVE//WARRIOR!

It’s 2018, we’re sick of this, and we’re hungry for blood.

New music for flirting or lonely lesbian nights. Your call!

With her 20th studio album out and a tour with Andrea Gibson on the horizon, the li’l folksinger talks politics, activism, and why she’s still getting happier as she gets older. She also called me babe.

As an 11-year relationship ended and the dust settled around me a couple weeks ago, I realized something: I needed music, I needed someone in my ear telling me everything I’m feeling and seeing wasn’t new and unknowable, that this was A Thing That Happens.

“Chester Bennington’s anger was so present and so empathic. It told me it was okay that I had it too— that I wasn’t alone, that my feelings were normal. It replaced my fear, and it helped me survive.”

“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”

“Soft butches everywhere? I don’t know what your heaven looks like, but this is mine.”

Then I met Summer, a junior counselor at the Christian summer camp I went to between sixth and seventh grade. Summer wore a different band shirt almost every day: Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. She told me she loved classic rock, and without hesitating, I said “me too.”

These workout songs will make you want to wave your hands/arms/whole body in the air like you just don’t care.